Critical Thinking

Critical thinking skills are vital but most of us are not naturally good at evaluating the reasons to believe something. Luckily we can improve our critical thinking skills. In this course, you will learn to identify and avoid typical errors in reasoning that people make along with practical techniques to boost your critical thinking skills.

Fallacious reasoning: descriptions of common errors in reasoning that occur in bad arguments.

Different kinds of arguments: arguments by analogy, reasoning in science, and arguments using statistics.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Recognise arguments, their components, and different types of reasoning

Employ techniques to evaluate how good an argument is (and identify bad arguments)

Understand and avoid typical errors in reasoning

Construct good arguments

Who should attend?

This course is aimed at anyone who would like to learn how to improve their critical and logical thinking skills. No special background is required but a good command of English is desirable.

Details

6 x Wednesdays, 6 March - 10 April, 6:30 - 8:30pm

$185.00 incl. GST

The University of Auckland, City Campus

Presented by Daniel Wilson

Seminar presenter

Daniel Wilson

Doctoral Candidate

Daniel Wilson has a PhD in philosophy and has lectured at the University of Auckland and Massey University in theories of knowledge (epistemology), ancient Greek philosophy and the philosophy of art. He has also taught many other philosophy papers, including critical thinking.